"stereotypes = constructed reinforced commonalities that have been around long enough and so don’t need repetition"
Notes to Self are longer journal entries from Seven Yrs Ago. I was 21 mid-2014.
USC is the Disneyland of universities—multiethnic but codes “white”
1) Ethnicity
cultural background
can change over time with experiences and situations
2) Race
anthropological and falsely biological
superimposed by society’s and its obsession over categorizations
physical features
*rasquache—Chicano term that has a negative connotation in Mexico as an attitude that was lower class and impoverished
*sensiblería—outright attempt to over-sentimentalize everything she touched. Frida Kahlo
*rascuachismo—quality of apparent bad taste in popular Mexican artifacts that are infused with subversive power
stereotypes = constructed reinforced commonalities that have been around long enough and so don’t need repetition
For commentary seven years later, go here.